Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker 2025 at 10:31 am ET.css-79elbk{position:relative;}U.S Joe Courtney wants the nation to meet Vernon veteran Gabriel D'Alatri who lost his federal job at Tuesday's presidential address Joe Courtney (CT-02) Monday announced that Gabriel D'Alatri will be his special guest for President Trump's Joint Address to Congress Tuesday night was a "high-performing" project manager at the Internal Revenue Service until his layoff on Feb as part of President Donald Trump's federal workforce purge It happened just five days from D'Alatri securing permanent employment status and his job loss forced his wife to end maternity leave early and return to full-time work my office has received thousands of messages from constituents grappling with the consequences of the Trump Administration's actions and a top-performing federal worker at the IRS who was unjustly fired screamed out for action His presence here in Washington is living proof of the feckless indiscriminate harm that President Trump and Elon Musk’s mismanaged ‘DOGE’ has inflicted on high performing My job helped everyday Americans access essential services and allowed me to support my wife and six-month-old daughter," he said "I never imagined veterans would be targeted I want to believe all presidents care about us veterans and working-class people like me have been unjustly fired My wife and I had plans to buy a new house To be fired puts extreme pressure on our family All I want is to return to work and do my job." Courtney said he "has been fighting back to protect workers like Gabriel and help them return to work." which would require any veteran who was removed or otherwise dismissed from civil service after Jan D'Alatri is a first generation Italian-American He said he was "driven" by a duty to serve the country that afforded him and his family "new opportunities," so he and his brother joined the Marine Corps in 2016 shortly after graduating high school he was meritoriously promoted to Lance Corporal after receiving top marks at the Marine Corps Motor Transportation School at Fort Leonard Wood The brothers were later medically discharged following injuries during their tours of duty D'Alatri used his GI bill to further his education at the University of Connecticut He then began working at the IRS in February 2024 as a project manager providing support to IRS facilities across New England He was slated to be promoted from a probationary employee to a permanent employee on Feb He first reached out to Vernon neighbor and state representative Kevin Brown Courtney said by inviting D'Alatri to Tuesday's address he will "add a face" to what has been transpiring in Washington Gabriel's story jumped off the page," Courtney said D'Alatri said he voted for Trump with an understanding that the "administration would speak up for veterans." " I was completely shocked to have the run pulled out from under me." "By inviting veterans like Gabriel (to the address) we hope to add a human impact to what has been happening." Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. Please email if you would like to be allow listed This article is a part of Washingtonian’s Eat Great Cheap feature our annual list of where to eat (and not break the bank) right now Our food editors put together the best new restaurants around DC where you can find Detroit-style pizza It’s easy to eat your veggies at this high-energy pizza place They get star billing on a shareable board showcasing spicy carrots and roasted beets and on wood-oven pies such as the eggplant-and-mushroom-laden Verdura it’s hard to pass up ’njuda-topped deviled eggs (who knew?) and a killer happy hour are as much of a draw as the food Ann Limpert joined Washingtonian in late 2003 She was previously an editorial assistant at Entertainment Weekly and a cook in New York restaurant kitchens and she is a graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education Anna Spiegel covers the dining and drinking scene in her native DC she attended the French Culinary Institute and Columbia University’s MFA program in New York and held various cooking and writing positions in NYC and in St Jessica Sidman covers the people and trends behind D.C.’s food and drink scene she was Food Editor and Young & Hungry columnist at Washington City Paper She is a Colorado native and University of Pennsylvania grad This morning the two suspects for the murder that took place on January 30 were arrested Breakthrough in the murder of Thomas Bricca the nineteen year old killed on January 30 last ad alatri The young man was killed during a dispute between two gangs for an exchange of persons Tonight two suspects were arrested by the police: Roberto Toson 47 years old and his son Matthias Toson of 22 Bricca was shot in the head by a person who had arrived in the center of Alatri on a scooter driven by a second person A few months of investigation conducted by the carabinieri allowed the Frosinone prosecutor's office to register a young man from Alatri and his father in the register of suspects It would have been "Mattia Toson who fired at least two pistol shots" one of which hit and mortally wounded 19-year-old Thomas Bricca on the evening of last January 30 in Alatri "while his father Roberto was driving the scooter" with which the two arrived in via Liberio said the prosecutor of Frosinone Antonio Guerriero during the press conference in the Court The prosecutor has repeatedly reiterated the commitment made towards the family and the community to bring the perpetrators of the crime to justice Guerriero reconstructed the dynamics of the murder According to what emerged from the investigations on the evening of January 30 the latter allegedly fired at least two shots "Thomas Bricca wore a white jacket like the real target of the ambush" "Mattia Toson and his father Roberto weren't where they said they were," continued the prosecutor they leftvoid in alibis: the cell phones were turned off and we gathered a series of elements for which” the two arrested suspects “could have been at the scene of the murder” that during the investigation the gun was not found nor even the scooter the prosecutor has repeatedly remarked on the difficulty in carrying out the investigations I was hoping they would take them too” she told “Nova Agency” Paolo Bricca We await the outcome of the investigation." Regarding the intentions of the alleged killers Paolo Bricca said that his son's was an "evil fate" Mistaken for another young man who "maybe they wanted to put his legs up" the reconstruction of the Temple of Alatri located in the gardens of the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome between the Nymphaeum and the right wing of the exhibition route It is a life-size reproduction of an Etruscan-Italic temple found in Alatri (Frosinone) in 1882 The reconstruction was overseen by architect and archaeologist Adolfo Cozza at the behest of Felice Barnabei and was based on the results of an excavation conducted by Cozza himself and Hermann Winnefeld of the German Archaeological Institute at La Stazza (1 km north of Alatri).The two archaeologists’ investigations had uncovered the foundations of a small temple dating from the 3rd-2nd centuries B.C. as well as the remains of its architectural decoration which served as a model for the faithful reconstruction of modern decorative elements reproduced with the same techniques and materials used more than two thousand years earlier built between 1889 (the year the museum opened) and 1891 constitutes one of the world’s earliest examples of reconstruction for educational and popular purposes one of the first cases of open air museum at the international level so far unjustly underestimated by museological critics who have focused their attention on some famous contemporary experiences in northern Europe and North America almost ignoring Cozza and Barnabei’s undertaking also because of its early transformation into a simple storage facility The National Etruscan Museum has now decided after years of neglect and misrepresentation of its original functions that led to a gradual wear and tear of the architectural decorations to intervene on the Alatri temple with a functional restoration to return it to public use the museum makes it known that this important restoration is only the first step of a wider path already financed by the Lazio Region through a call for technological innovation Forty-five years after the last restoration coordinated by Lucos Cozza (Adolfo’s nephew archaeologist) the new construction site is in fact the prerequisite for the future transformation of the temple into a “Temple Machine,” which will house inside it a digital immersive space in which to experience the telling of history as in a journey through time by playing not only on the technological component Receive emails when new obituariesare published to our website Each of our funeral homes offers a complete range of services in tastefully decorated Professionally trained and licensed staff members stand ready to provide sensitive caring service and strive to exceed the expectations of each and every family.Our communities are wonderfully diverse in religious beliefs Our staff truly appreciates these differences and our training includes heartfelt understanding and respect for the special needs of all whom we serve Hartford | Windsor | Poquonock | Granby | Suffield | South Windsor | Rockville | Vernon | Avon© Carmon Community Funeral Homes | Funeral Home Website Design By Frazer Consultants & TA Your browser may not work with certain site. 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Now he also expects to know the results of the tests for drug use we delve into the character and what seems to be one of his habits: recording videos while driving to publish them on social media He was under the effects ofalcohol the 30-year-old of Moroccan origins but resident in Alatri who yesterday afternoon caused thehead-on accident with a car seriously injuring two children and a mother in the process a live social broadcast This would be the outcome of part of the toxicological tests to which he was subjected we delve into the character and what seems to be a habit of his: recording videos while driving to publish them on social media There are dozens of videos that the young man had published on his Instagram profile in which with one hand on the steering wheel and the other with his cell phone he films the scenes of his driving with the background of rhythmic music On feed he posted until November last year but subsequently switched to Facebook live the one from yesterday afternoon which showed "in real time" the accident that injured the 5-year-old girl with phone in hand just to make that last video he hit the car traveling in the opposite direction A story that dramatically recalls the accident that cost the life of little Manuel the 5-year-old boy who died in Casal Palocco on 14 June when a group of YouTubers hit the Smart car in which he was traveling with an SUV during a "live" broadcast one of which is under house arrest for road homicide with serious but fortunately not equally dramatic results seems to have been repeated yesterday afternoon on the provincial road in Santa Cecilia near the Tecchiena Castle in the municipality of Alatri In the video you can see the reckless driving of the 30-year-old but above all the impact with the Nissan Qashqa in which the 5-year-old girl her older brother and her mother were traveling on their way to the sports field to watch the match of the team in which the third player plays the woman's 17-year-old son The most serious injuries were suffered by the little girl who was transported to Bambino Gesù in Rome She suffered multiple traumas but is improving and is expected to be released from intensive care The mother and brother in hospital in Alatri The police are investigating the case and have seized the young man's two cars and phone The outcome of the investigations and the medical report of the injured are awaited regarding his position